There is a glass top desk that fits perfectly where I scrapbook. It is easy to clean, durable, very versatile and gives a fresh, clean and modern look as a craft desk.

This is a cutlery drainer that turned into a scissors, rulers, brushes, pens and tweezers holder. It can hold various scrapbook supplies.

There is a box with some of my creations: cards and mini-books

Acrylic box with my Thickers and alphabets. A big part of keeping a more organized craft room is creating space to store products and grouping different types of items together in easy to access containers. Clear plastic storage boxes are a great way to do this. It is great to find what is inside, without needing to open the box and dig through it.

In fact, there is one more acrylic box which I store my newest papers. A great way to organize my scrapbook papers so that it is easy to find the perfect color for a project.

I love making mini-albums, however, I don't like the fact that they normally take me so long to do! Today I am going to show you that you can make a quick and easy mini-album using only some scraps of patterned paper, some trims, and a few of your favorite border punches and embellishments.

The first thing that I did was resize the photos I had picked out to 2x3, with the intent to put two photos on each page of the mini-album. Next, I decided on a basic design. In addition to the two photos per page, I used either a border punched scrap of patterned paper or a trim to border the photos (sometimes I layered both). In addition, I added some small chipboard embellishments on most of the pages, too.

I followed this formula for each page, leaving enough room to add my journaling on each page. Lastly, I used chipboard to embellish the cover, and instead of using binder rings, I tied ribbon through the album as I thought it gave it a more homespun feel.

Hopefully this project showed you that it is possible to keep things easy when it comes to mini-albums, and it can still turn out cute :-)

Hey everyone Zoe here and I want you to drop absolutely everything and use your Border Punches!! Well ok don’t drop everything, lol, but we all have lots of border punches. They have become a huge staple in our scrappy supplies in recent years and I find I reach for them for almost every layout.

We have all been seeing more and more punched backgrounds recently. This look is very easy to achieve and adds so much dimension and texture to a layout without it becoming bulky, so for my layout today I punched with 4 border designs and layered them up.

You only need 1 sheet of pattered paper and this looks cool with just plain cardstock too.

Step 1: Cut a 4 x 12 strip off from the edge do not discard this piece as we can use it as an extra border or two.

Step 2: Punch along your 8 inch edge and then trim 1inch from the bottom of the design so if your design is deep then you should have at least a 2 inch strip this makes the layering process so much easier. Continue to punch and then trim until you have used up your sheet including the 4 x 12 strip you cut off earlier and begin to layer.

I layer from the bottom I just add a dab of glue to the lowest edge, then you can just tuck each border design in a little to position it correctly. You can have so much fun with this technique. Use the same punch, use different punches, it’s up to you. Just make sure you have fun. Thanks for popping over for our Technique Tuesday post.

Doesn't it look gorgeous? I can't wait to see what else she has in store for us. BTW if you have been missing all the talk from the message board we're chatting up a storm on the AMM facebook page in the discussions forum. Check it out here. We hope to see you there.

I think, like me, you all have a lot and lot of thickers, and others alphabets, where the numbers always to remain. 3 years ago, I think, I saw an intersting layout that used a lot of numbers. This layout never got out of my mind, and today I did one to look like that one.

Please don't ask me where or who did that layout,LOL, because I don't know... I remeber that I saw so quick and never saw it again!!

So, let's go to the idea to use a lot of numbers.

You can do a frame around de brackground, or can do a mat around your photo. Mix several colors and shapes. You'll be surprised with the result."